Yuan Revaluation? I am worried about the US dollar. People far smarter than I are worried about the US dollar. There is some speculation that the dollar will rapidly crash through the $1.35 mark against the Euro. Right now the US dollar is floating at $1.28 per Euro. The $1.35 mark is just another 5% […]

Clark and Political Jujitsu Lies, damm lies and statistics has an interesting piece of political jujitsu for the Democrats that should be a tract that the eventual nominee investigate to deal with both national security and tax policy concerns that the pundits are conceding to Bush. The basic proposal is to argue for a repeal […]

Checking In AB here, checking in from a working vacation. Kash and I should be back to normal posting on Wednesday, though Fester is welcome to keep posting through the week (and thanks to Fester for filling in and make sure to add Fester’s Place to your regular reads.) One interesting bit of news: Angry […]

Free Advice for Clark DISCLAIMER: FESTER IS A DEAN SUPPORTER, so take this piece as you wish Josh Marshall in his pre-New Hampshire travelling post lays out a pretty good and fair analysis of the primary horse race. There is an interesting question of Clark’s return on investment in New Hampshire and the question of […]

Weakening the Reserves, Again The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that a Western Pennsylvania based Reserve MP Company has returned home and is fundamentally demobilized as of yesterday. Congratulations and welcome back home. I hope that these men and women will be able to transition back into civilian life reasonable successfully and that they can get […]

Economic uncertainty for the Average Joe Although we are seeing the economy starting to have as Brad dealing puts it “some unambiguously good unemployment news as new claims dropped below 350,000 for the first time in over two years, the economy is still weak for the average American. MB at Wampum notes that the average […]

Pittsburgh’s Woes Atrios has a good summary of the problems that the city of Pittsburgh faces for the next year. I have gone into long details about the basic problems that the city faces in previous posts. However I will recap the basic problems and provide a quick update on what is going on. Basically […]

Winning the War on Terorrism There are many plans to win the war on terorrism. Some are completely insane, others are pretty decent. Now some non-bloggers, and people with actual influence and power are proposing plans to invade the rest of the world sometime in the second Bush term (there is a good reason why […]